Sentences with phrase «peac meeting»

The exchange over the dispute resolution process, a required element of district educator evaluation and support plans, came at this week's PEAC meeting.

At today's PEAC meeting in Hartford, Waxenberg and CEA President Sheila Cohen, who represent teachers on the council, reiterated the Association's position that state mastery tests should not be used in teacher evaluation.

Decided to conduct surveys of local Professional Development and Evaluation Committee (PDEC) members and teachers to get feedback on how the PDEC process is working and review the findings at the next PEAC meeting.

At today's PEAC meeting, CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg and President Sheila Cohen held a small group discussion with SDE Commissioner Dianna Wentzell and New Haven Federation of Teachers President David Cicarello on the question of the appropriate use of state mastery tests.

Not exact matches

Cardona said that when PEAC has heard directly from education practitioners at its meetings they often want to focus on what is going well with teacher evaluation.

PEAC is considering additional ways to increase flexibility to districts and, at a meeting Thursday, members heard from districts in Connecticut that are already provided greater flexibility in their teacher evaluation plans.

At today's meeting, PEAC members were asked to identify issues that need addressing in the new evaluation system and pinpoint positives that seem to be emerging.

At a meeting earlier this month, the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) recommended putting off the use of SBAC scores in teacher evaluations for another year.

Connecticut's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council («PEAC»), the body that oversees the teacher and principal evaluation system, will next meet in January.

Since PEAC is advisory to the state Board of Education, the board must vote on the PEAC recommendation at its meeting on April 6.

«Regardless of what we want to plan for, a lot is going to depend on what happens in Washington, D.C.,» CEA President Sheila Cohen told other members of Connecticut's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) at a meeting yesterday.

Since PEAC last met, the notion that one can rate teacher's effectiveness based on student standardized test scores has been thoroughly debunked.

CEA has been a strong advocate for teachers as a member of the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) that has been meeting for over a year.

Today the forum for discussion of teacher evaluation was a meeting of the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC).

That's according to survey data reviewed by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) at a meeting this week.

Cohen concluded, «We are hopeful that the State Board of Education will adopt PEAC's recommendation at its April 5 meeting so that we can continue to move forward and to improve the educational opportunities for all public school students in Connecticut.»

CEA championed people over process at today's meeting of the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC).

The full PEAC Committee (charged with creating the system) hasn't met since the beginning of February — only a «framework» currently exists.

Teachers and evaluators will meet to establish student learning objectives within the «other» 22.5 %, according to the PEAC decision.

However, with no meeting schedule set, it may be almost impossible for PEAC to complete the work that needs to be done before a meaningful pilot program can even be conducted.

At a meeting May 31, PEAC decided the following, against CEA's strong objections and opposition.

But as of today, no other full PEAC committee meetings have been set.

As you are aware, the full PEAC committee has not met since February 6, 2012.